William Allen White Quotes
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In winter, the Icelanders told the tales of the brave men of old in their families, and so the tradition was handed on from father to son, the same stories told every winter, till all the particulars became well known.
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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.
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Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.
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On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?
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Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
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Even after they had stopped modeling for Playboy and had settled down with other men to raise families of their own, Hugh Hefner still considered them his women, and in the bound volumes of his magazine he would always possess them.
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Most male victims of violence are the victims of other men's violence. So that's something that both women and men have in common. We are both victims of men's violence.
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Common perceptions of female friendships are morning coffees discussing children, bags, periods and agreeing about the misdemeanours of men... mild, soft, nurturing relationships.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.
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Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
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I love to wear lingerie. The problem is that men always rip it off too quickly. When women are dolled up in lingerie they feel sexy. So let us wear it for five minutes.
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When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled.
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Johnny Rotten. He's a big fan of mine. I used to see him out in the audience in England and he'd stand up and holler. He's funny. Smart too, and a nice guy. Don't think he's a jerk because he isn't.
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More men are ruined by underestimating the value of money than by overestimating it. Let us, then, abandon the affectation of despising money, and frankly own its value.
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Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.
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Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.
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We adore babies because they're so cute. And, of course, we are amused by jokes because they are funny. This is all backwards. It is. And Darwin shows us why.
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Women are more skilled than men at making gossip entertaining.
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I love the idea that movies, like 'Fast Times,' can be iconic and change people's lives in little, tiny ways.
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Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country.
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Women's scars and rituals involved beauty (piercing ears and noses, binding feet, and wearing corsets); men's involved protecting women. In cultures in which physical strength is still the best way to protect women, as among the Dodos in Uganda, each time a man kills a man, he is awarded a ritual scar; the more scars, the more he is considered eligible.
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There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity.
